New Dramatists-hosted staged reading of SUMMERLAND, directed by Kevin Kittle.

Feb 21, 2012

Composer/Librettist Performance New York New York USA

Performances of all compositions from the two-week Composer/Librettist studio featured five new Hammond collaborations, with composers Mike Iveson, Jr., David Mallamud, Peter Stopschinsky and Martin Hennessy.

Jan 7, 2012

Enter the Roar and The Great Walk New York New York Uni

New Dramatists hosted week of workshops for two plays from the Eva trilogy: Enter the Roar and The Great Walk.

Sep 12, 2011

New Dramatists Welcome Event New York New York

Excerpts from five Hammond plays performed by Charlotte Parry and Tom Hammond

Jul 6, 2011

Clurman Theatre New York New York USA

Of-Broadway run of Eva the Chaste, produced by Fallen Angel Theatre Company, starring Aedin Moloney and directed by John Keating.

Jan 27, 2011

The National Arts Club Gala

Jan 9, 2011

American Irish Historical Society New York New York

Sep 27, 2010

Eva the Chaste, Blacks London

Mark Reynolds from the London magazine, The Drawbridge, hosted this intimate reading at Black's on Dean Street in Soho, opposite the Groucho Club. Audience members came from as far as Munich for the reading, and it was gratifying and special to share Eva with a London audience.

The discussion and drinking that followed lasted late into the night...

Sep 19, 2010

Eva the Chaste at Shakespeare & Company Paris

Aedin stormed Paris with her entourage and her chutzpah and gathered an audience to her bosom for the whole of the 75-minute piece. Who can compete with the lights of Paris and the sun setting over Notre Dame? Aedin Moloney, that's who.

A post from the leftbankmanc's blogspot --

Sunday got even more cultural because then I went to see a play reading at Shakespeare and Company, which is a famous English bookshop that has over the years provided free accomodation and such for famous writers and poets. They do writers' workshops and stuff too that I'd really like to go but I think that may be something for After Christmas. I will definately be spending more time there though, they do performance poetry nights there and other intellectual arty things and even though I am not an Intellectual or Arty Person I like to pretend to be much in the same way I enjoy pretending to be French in musuems and on park benches.

The play, Eva the Chaste by Barbara Hammond, was a monologue about an Irish woman who has lived in Paris for twenty years and has to return home to look after her sick mother. The actress managed to hold the audience, made up of au pairs, literary folk, tourists and drunk passers by, for seventy five minutes which I think is pretty amazing. Everyone was gazing up at her like it was storytime at nursery. My favourite part was when the sirens of a passing fire engine seemed to go on forever and were in danger of spoiling the moment. She said the line 'That's not her now is it?' and gazed into the middle distance. Then a moment later, as the sirens continued to disrupt the atmosphere, she said 'No, it's just the fire brigade.'

It was very, very good and I felt very, very Cultured sat on the pavement in the Latin Quarter of Paris , listening to somebody else's memories as the sun went down...

Sep 13, 2010

Eva the Chaste, Cafe Hilde, Prenzlauer Berg Berlin

My friend the artist Andrea Ventura and my procurer, the translator/book fest talent Siobhan O'Leary gathered their forces to pull an audience to Cafe Hilde on a cold and wet September evening in Berlin for a reading of Eva the Chaste. It was great fun, and imagine my surprise to discover the Cafe's owner Cristina worked for years at Dublin's famous Marx Brothers Cafe, where this play had its beginnings in my mind when I was seventeen...

Here is a blog someone did about the reading:

Berlin LitFest: Barbara Hammond and Harald Martenstein

So Berlin Literature Festival has kicked off, and we’ve attended two very different events so far.

On Wednesday evening Barbara Hammond read her dramatic monologue Eva the Chaste at Cafe Hilde. Eva has returned to Dublin after 20 years abroad to look after her dying mother. In that hour when night turns to dawn, Eva speaks about everything from the Catholic guilt and sexual repression of her childhood to her sexual promiscuity as an adult.

Her monologue is frank, peppered with dark humour and interesting turns of phrase. At its heart is her dysfunctional relationship with her mother, and the drama builds layer upon layer, towards its inevitable end.

Hammond herself read the monologue, although it is usually performed by actress Aedin Moloney. Eva the Chaste previously toured in New York living rooms, so having a group of about 15 people (including a very well-behaved baby) gathered around her armchair at the intimate Cafe Hilde seemed apt. She did not get distracted by the fact that the noise from the cafe was a bit too loud at the beginning – testament to the fact that she is an actress as well as a playwright and director - and read with an authentic, confident voice and fluidity throughout.

She seemed pleased, even a little surprised, that people had turned up to see her, and hung around to answer questions afterwards. During the conversation that followed, she explained that the character of Eva had just started talking to her one day, as characters sometimes do, and as Eva had yet more to say she was considering making the piece longer and turning it into a novella.

Sep 10, 2010

Eva the Chaste in Teatro Anghiari Tuscany Ita

Check out the photos on the Photos page to see just how beautiful this theatre is, and just how fortunate I was to read Eva the Chaste there. Kim and Paolo Ventura invited me to Anghiari, and Artistic Directors Andrea Merendelli and Paolo Pennacchini of Teatro Anghiari constructed an evening I will never forget, with an audience mix of ex-pats who spoke English and Italian theatre professionals from as far as Arezzo. Dinner, wine and song followed...I want to write another play quickly just so I can ask to be invited back.

Jul 8, 2010

Eva the Chaste at Theatre for a New City New York New York

This was a packed house on a hot summer's night in the East Village and I sat in the back and you could have heard the sweat beads forming on our foreheads as Aedin carried this play from first word to last. The reception from the audience was overwhelming and made the news that we were headed to Paris even sweeter.

Jun 27, 2010

Eva the Chaste at Guild Hall East Hampton New York

Another evening that will not be forgotten as Guild Hall kindly opened its doors to Eva the Chaste. Aedin took the jitney from the West Village to perform for the Hampton summer crowd as I was living in Montauk at The Barn, an artists' colony Edward Albee opened in the sixties, after his first real monetary success with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Mr. Albee attended the reading and spoke afterwards to the audience and I put Aedin back on the jitney and floated back home to finish another play.

May 16, 2010

Eva the Chaste at the Skylight Gallery Chelsea

May 5, 2010

Eva the Chaste on Central Park West

Mar 14, 2010

Eva the Chaste on West 86th Street

Mar 11, 2010

Eva the Chaste at The National Arts Club produced by Fallen Angel Theatre Company

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